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Maternal pattern of transmission
Mitochondrial inheritance
2 distinctive features
matrilineal inheritance
both sexes affected but transmission only by females as mitochondria are only maternally derived
hetroplasmy
the presence of both normal & mutation carrying mitochondrial DNA in a cell – explains wide phenotypic variation between affected individuals in a family
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